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Misshapen Butter Pats (Posted on 2005-08-16) Difficulty: 3 of 5
While buttering my bread at lunch one day I mused that one can not only cut a square pat of butter in half with only a knife, but also if the pat is in the shape of a regular n-gon, n>3. But what if the pat is shaped like an irregular quadrilateral?

Can you bisect the area of an arbitrary quadrilateral with one straight line using only a straightedge and a compass?

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re(4): Solution -- You're right; I'm wrong Comment 9 of 9 |
(In reply to re(3): Solution -- You're right; I'm wrong by Bractals)

Very nice!  Thank you.  Now I can construct the square root of any given length (as long as a unit length is available too).


  Posted by McWorter on 2005-08-18 01:36:10
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